The crisis “brought Jim Crow violence to vivid life in world media” and led Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to exclaim that “this situation was ruining our foreign policy.”82 The Soviets wanted to be sure of it as they published their exposé: “National guard soldiers and policemen armed to the teeth bar Negro children from entering the schools, threaten them with bayonets and tear-gas bombs and encourage hooligans to engage in violence with impunity.”
